The Attractiveness of Countries to Foreign Direct Investors

Sharon Jackson and Stefan Markowski
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Sharon Jackson: Faculty of Business, School of Economics and Finance, Queensland University of Technology, Gardens Point Campus, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane QLD 4001
Stefan Markowski: School of Economics and Management, University College, Australian Defence Force Academy, University of New South Wales, Canberra ACT 2600, E-mail s-markowski@adfa.oz.au

Australian Journal of Management, 1996, vol. 21, issue 2, 113-138

Abstract: The present paper is concerned with the attractiveness of countries to direct foreign investments, that is, the host country characteristics that attract direct foreign investment (FDI). It focuses on two types of national characteristics —those that attract inflows of all foreign investment (intermediate products), including FDI, that is, mobility factors; and those that influence the modality of these inflows, that is, reflect the preference for FDI rather than other forms of foreign investment or ‘straight (unbundled) imports of intermediate products by indigenous firms (modality factors)’. The paper reports preliminary findings from a study of plausible determinants of FDI inflows into a sample of 25 countries.

Keywords: FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT (FDI); ATTRACTIVENESS; INVESTMENT MOBILITY FACTORS; INVESTMENT MODALITY FACTORS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1177/031289629602100202

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